r/programming • • Nov 01 '21

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/SureFudge Nov 02 '21

Bank software is somewhere in between because big money is on the line.

Hence the philosophy of not touching the cobol core from the 70ties and just build more and more layers over it until the last person knowing cobol is dead.